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Why Teach?
Chapter One
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Reflection
• The reflective practitioner thinks more thoroughly and more systematically about his or her experience.
• Questions to stimulate your thinking:
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Motives for Teaching
• Examine your motives for teaching: make a well-thought-out decision about what to do with your life.
• Compare your motives to others’: other possible answers to the question “Why teach?”
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Reasons for Originally Becoming a Teacher
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Profession That Provides the Most Benefit to Society
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Extrinsic Rewards of Teaching
• Salaries - improving• Status - difficult to discern• Power - unique power over students• Work Schedule - “June, July and August”
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Intrinsic Rewards of Teaching
• Students – one of the strongest rewards perceived by teachers
• Performing a Significant Social Service – important work for the common good
• Fellow Teachers – stimulation and support• The Work of Teaching – actual process highly
gratifying
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VIDEO CASE: Teaching as a Profession: Collaboration with Colleagues
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Deciding to Be a Teacher: Sources of Useful Experience
• Real encounters with children or adolescents• Vicarious experiences – film and television,
fiction, memoirs about teachers• Guidance - advice from those who know you• Reflection - the most important source